| Bardo Contributor(s): Paola, Suzanne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0299160106 ISBN-13: 9780299160104 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $25.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1998 Annotation: Suzanne Paola fuses the Tibetan bardo journey with Western epic tradition in ways that are both comic and harrowing. Bardo is the intermediate state after dead when the soul wanders through the heavens and the hells while trying to avoid rebirth into samsara -- the realm of the material -- and to instead reach nitvana. Paola presents a series of this life's bardo experiences: drug use, the refused birth of infertility, the social implications of the female body, even a trip to the fantastic "afterworld" of pop culture. Bardo's journey travels to a place where "to be human is to be part god, / part sickness, / always wondering which is which". |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 98023341 |
| Series: Brittingham Prize in Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6.3" W x 9.32" (0.65 lbs) 112 pages |